Staff Software Engineer

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

In this position... 

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

This role sits in the Business Applications and Ecosystem Services (BA&ES), part of the Vehicle Cloud and Mobile organization. BA&ES designs, builds, and operates the core applications and ecosystem capabilities that underpin many of Ford’s digital experiences. We deliver innovative, trusted global solutions that other teams rely on, shipping small, incremental changes to adapt to evolving customer expectations while maintaining high standards for quality, security, and reliability. Our teams continuously build, deploy, and operate foundational platforms and services across the full delivery lifecycle. By providing robust, fit for purpose technology, BA&ES enables product teams across Ford to move faster with confidence, focus on their specific customer initiatives, and deliver value to market efficiently and safely

In this position, you will work on large scale, foundational digital capabilities leveraged by teams across Ford, contributing to platforms that are critical to delivering reliable and consistent digital experiences. As a Staff Software Engineer, you are a senior individual contributor who leads through technical excellence, strong engineering discipline, and collaboration. You will help shape architectural direction, guide complex technical decisions, and raise the engineering bar through your day to day contributions. By building resilient, scalable, and well designed solutions, you enable other teams to move faster with confidence and build upon a solid, fit for purpose foundation.

What you'll do...

Design, develop, and operate foundational digital capabilities and services from conception through production and ongoing support, enabling teams across Ford to deliver reliable and consistent experiences.

Lead and actively participate in technical design and architecture reviews, ensuring solutions are well reasoned, maintainable, and aligned with long term ecosystem and organizational goals.

Write high quality, production ready code with a strong emphasis on clarity, test coverage, resilience, and long term maintainability.

Apply disciplined engineering practices, including automated testing, continuous integration, incremental delivery, and regular refactoring, to reduce risk and improve system quality.

Build, evolve, and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, safe, and repeatable delivery of change across environments.

Take end to end ownership of services in production, including observability, debugging, performance tuning, and incident resolution, ensuring systems meet reliability and availability expectations.

Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other technical partners to deliver high quality outcomes for internal consumers and Ford customers.

Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers through pairing, design discussions, and day to day collaboration.

Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and approaches that improve developer productivity, reliability, and overall system quality.

Contribute to documentation, shared standards, and engineering practices that make it easier for teams across Ford to build on and extend your work.

You'll have...

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or a combination of education and equivalent professional experience.

8+ years of hands-on professional software engineering experience, building and operating production grade systems in a collaborative team environment.

Strong professional experience with Kotlin; experience with Java is beneficial.

Demonstrated experience contributing to the design and evolution of complex, distributed software systems, including influencing technical decisions beyond your immediate scope of work.

Hands on experience designing, building, and operating systems in cloud environments (e.g. Google Cloud Platform or equivalent).

A strong engineering discipline, with a consistent approach to automated testing, continuous integration, incremental delivery, and regular refactoring.

Proven experience working with fully automated CI/CD pipelines, enabling frequent, safe, and repeatable delivery of software to production.

Even better, you may have...

Practical experience using modern development and delivery tooling such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, and related workflows.

Experience owning software in production, including diagnosing issues, debugging failures, and improving performance, reliability, and operability.

Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and influence technical decisions across teams.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

• Tuition assistance

• Established and active employee resource groups

• Paid time off for individual and team community service 

• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day 

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time. 

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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